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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
JANUARY 7,1947
Innocent Looking, But What A Man!
An innocent-looking person, true, but Elden Tefft Lawrence junior in the College, can do some tricks you'd never imagine. A war veteran of southwest Pacific days, he's back in school now, and entertaining his speech and English classes with descriptions of one of his particular abilities. He's one man who doesn't merely put a foot in his mouth, he puts—but more of the story unfolds tomorrow. See this spot on this page Wednesday for more details.
If you did,you may be the GI the army's looking for.
Kansas City GI Lost-Found Office Handles Bayonets, Soap, Bourbon
Kansas City, Mo. (UP)—Misplaced your ski poles, Joe—or perhaps a wall safe—while you were in the army?
What is probably the world's largest lost and found department is ready to hand it back. Before World War II there wasn't any such department. Today it is part of the army effects bureau, a section of the Quartermaster Corps.
Two officers and 270 civilians handle all lost and found. They also take charge of all personal effects of men who died in service.
The officers are Lt. Col. P. U. Maxey and Lt. Charles L. Rumfield. Maxey is a beribboned veteran of more than a year and a half in the Pacific. Rumfield wears campaign ribbons won through 19 months of army life in Europe,
Their commanding officer—the man in charge of all operations at the Kansas City quartermaster depot—is Col. Michael A. Quinn, a soldier who survived Bataan and three and one-half years in Japanese prison camps.
In Maxey's office are files on 827,500 cases, both complete and incomplete. And he's quick to tell you the end is nowhere in sight.
Here's a typical dav:
The office received 1,917 letters asking about lost and found articles or the personal effects of some soldier. Outgoing letters answering these requests totaled 1,723. There were 243 cases of lost and found articles or personal effects shipped. When cases of articles are received—and they are received in carload lots from all over the world—each package is inventoried. Today, 109 cases were examined.
Some things don't get through.
The army bars live ammunition. Maxey and his boys have retrieved everything from 22-caliber bullets to bazooka shells. Sub-machine guns are out. Pistols, rifles, bayonets and other assorted articles of mayhem—so long as they aren't government issued property—get approval.
After-shaving lotion, tooth paste and other toilet articles are on the mix list of the army. They are easily contaminated and are removed for sanitary reasons.
Soap, incidentally, comes in the same category. So far, 128 cases—more than 12,500 pounds—have been
The majority of other articles go through. In fact, they leave in better condition than they came in. Clothing is dry-cleaned and jewelry furished up.
As far as losing or misplacing any of the valuables--that's out. A security detail checks every box as it is inventoried. Valuables are removed, tagged and locked in a vault. One person has the key.
Valuables aren't always in the jewelry line. A case of top quality bourbon was returned to its owner.
A note came back from California expressing amazement that, "Thank God, there's one honest guy in the army."
Another GI sent back a $1 bill and enclosed a note.
With hopes of reaching an agreement for a recommendation to the All-Student council on who should pay for the student directory, the student-faculty committee will meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the office of the dean of women.
Committee Meets To Discuss Directory
"Buy yourself a cigar," he told the colonel.
Letter Carrier To Return
At the first committee meeting, adequate information for a decision was not immediately obtainable. Miss Martha Peterson, Pan-Hellenic secretary and committee chairman, said.
Members of the committee are Miss Peterson, Dean J. H. Nelson Clifford E. Reynolds, business senior; Anne Scott, College junior; and Eloise Hodgson, College sophomore
Inter-Frat Dance Set
The Inter-fraternity council voted to hold its annual winter formal Jan. 25 at a meeting Monday night. The dance will be held at the Lawrence Country club from 9 p.m. to 12 with music by Jimmy Hollyfield's band. Seven members from each fraternity will be invited.
the well-known woman letter-carrier for the University. Mrs. J. L. McGhee, has been ill for a week, but is expected to return tomorrow. J. E. Crabtree and Hallie Harris have substituted for her during her absence.
Stars Don't Shine For Campus Contests
Hollywood. (UP)—Campus life is fraught with hazards to married movie stars who are constantly called on to judge queen and king contests. It doesn't do, many a star has learned, to tell your short, blond husband you picked a tall, dark student as the man you'd like to be locked in the college bell-tower with.
At least as many times a year as there are colleges comes a plea to some player or players in movies to judge a contest for military ball honorary colonel, fall frolics queens, or something.
The colleges want a name judge, of course, but they also want to shoulder the responsibility onto someone far, far away.
One of the principal targets for that kind of mail is the happily married couple of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, Warner Bros. stars currently judging eight such college contests.
"It's a good thing we both have a sense of humor," Reagan said, "or we might pft, as the columnists say, during these judging sessions."
If his home relations were untranquil, Reagan pointed out, it might not be so good for him to point out a fair flower from Ohio whose general outlines weren't those of his wife.
“But one time,” he said, “I had to stand and look over her shoulder while she picked over a big, toothy, muscled hunk of personality for the title of ‘the man I’d like most to wreck my boat on a desert isle.’ I wanted to tell her he was the man I’d like to see most driving a truck’ but I restrained myself.”
Because Reagan is working in Warners' "Night Unto Night" while his wife labs for Robert Riskin at RKO-Radio, each makes selections, numbers them in order and brings them home to exchange.
"We don't debate about it at all."
Reagan said, "That's the sure way to start a fight. But every so often, when we have a lot of concessions on, I throw in a casual remark that she could walk away with any of them
"Then she says something about how I would have been the terror of any sorority house in the country. 'don't fight much about contests.'
Almost any college would give judges Reagan and Wyman an "A" in applied psychology.
Hospital Admits Fewer Students
A relatively slight number of students have been admitted to the Watkins Memorial hospital during the post-Christmas season period, Dr. R. I. Canuteson, hospital director, said today.
"Loss of sleep, using the time to study, only makes the brain duller for the examination on the following day."
In recommending aids to keep good health," he continued "eat three meals regularly each day, and begin now to study for finals.
Ten persons underwent operations at the hospital during Christmas vacation.
Those receiving surgery were William Alright, engineering freshman; Charles Van Buskirk, engineering sophomore; Clarence French, sophomore in education; Gilbert Fuller, engineering freshman; Jim Crook, business senior.
Carol Laired, engineering freshman;
William J. Stoner, sophomore in the College;
Glen E. Razak, engineering sophomore; Jerome Scheriffe, graduate student; and Alletta Powell,
graduate student.
Bachelor Partridge Leads Action To Bring 'Love-Marriage' To K.U.
If the nation's psychologists are right, lots of ex-GI's are disturbed by the perplexing problems of the post-war world—but K.U. has one veteran who's taking matters into his own hands. He's doing something about it.
He is Arthur Partridge, College senior, the man behind the campaign
ARTHUR PARTRIDGE
Juniors Will Meet To Discuss Prom
Plans for the Junior Prom will be the principal business of the first junior class meeting of the year at 1 p.m. Thursday in Frank Strong auditorium, Joan Woodward, secretary-treasurer, announced today.
Class officers Elizabeth Evans, president; Robert Barnes, vice-president; and Miss Woodward will be introduced, and committees will be appointed.
Murder Investigation Extends To Emporia
Kansas City, Kan. (UP)—Detective chief Stanley Beatty said today investigation of the slaying of Lewis J. Spencer, 27, male student nurse, whose body was found in his sixth floor living quarters at the University of Kansas hospital Friday morning, has extended to Emporia where Mr. Spencer formerly was in training at a hospital.
to bring "Love and Marriage" instruction to the campus.
Last February he was getting out of the army at Camp Cook, Calif. Just back from Germany, he was full of ideas about returning to college, but there wasn't much he could do on his paper came through. He stretched out on his blank flippped through the pages of a Collier's.
One article, "Sex in the Classroom," caught his interest. It told of successful experiments in marriage by sexually assaulting conducted by several universities.
He found that California was one of the strongholds of the idea, so he began asking questions. By the time he reached K.U. for the spring semester, he had all the information he needed. He contacted the new executive secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Ned Linegar, and suggested that the Y.M.C.A. sponsor a "Love and Marriage" lecture series.
"Those first lectures, by Dr. Wheeler and Dr. Canuteson, really packed the Kansas room," Partridge said. "The students were even standing outside on the stairs."
Mr. Linegar liked the idea, the Y.M.C.A. liked the idea, so a student committee got together to plan a three-lecture series.
At the third lecture the committee passed out a questionnaire, which revealed that the students wanted an eight-lecture course this fall.
So this fall the Y.M.C.A. carried out that wish. At the end of the series they took another poll and found that 98 per cent of the students want a full course in love and marriage. University officials apparently agreed, and said they'd think it over. Partridge said.
"We've made no recommendations as to credit hours or instructors," he said. "The course should be on an optional basis and available to all students."
While the plans for a full-time course are in the fire, Partridge and his aides are going on with arrangements for setting up a more inclusive lecture series for the spring semester.
In spite of his enthusiasm in seeing his project completed, Partridge explains he's no expert. He's still a bachelor.
News of the World
Marshall Says Extremists Hamper China Peace
Washington. (UP)—Gen. George C. Marshall, in a blasting criticism of both Chinese Nationalists and Communists, declared today that efforts to settle China's internal strife had been frustrated repeatedly "by extremist elements of both sides."
General Marshall has been summoned home by President Truman after failure of his mission to bring China's warring elements together in a representative, democratic government.
Steel Union Makes Demands.
Pittsburgh (UP) — The CIO united steel workers will demand a "substantial" wage increase, a guaranteed annual wage, social insurance, portal-to-portal pay and a union shop when negotiations for a 1947 contract are opened with the United States Steel corporation Jan. 16.
The union demands were made public last night when U. S. Steel announced that it would begin negotiations next week.
'No Interest In Liberals'
New York. (UF)—Lack of public interest has been responsible for the "elimination of liberal commentators, liberal columnists, and liberal newspapers," according to Henry A. Wallace, former secretary of commerce.
Republicans Speed Up Strike-Control Measures
Tax Battle Coming Up
Washington. (UP)—Congressional Republicans slapped a speedup priority on their own strike-control measures today, complaining that President Truman's would do too little too late.
Republicans were especially lukewarm to the president's request for a special commission to study labor problems. They were critical of his silence on portal-to-portal lawsuits claiming back overtime pay.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman and the Republican-controlled congress headed for a showdown battle over taxes today. Republicans insist that taxes will be cut.
The president probably will veto at least two GOP tax bills this year, one reducing personal taxes and the other immediately eliminating certain wartime increases in excise taxes on luxury items.
Trieste Plan Before Council
Lake Success. (UP) - The big powers opened a year of heavy work in the United Nations security council today with a bid for approval of their plan to make Trieste a free territory by Jan. 15 with the UN as its caretaker. Delegates also sought a decision on the way to assemble machinery for atomic control and world disarmament.